TERRIBLE NEWS:The Tennessee volunteers has been sued for the investigation carry out but………..
The attorneys general of both Tennessee and Virginia have filed a lawsuit against the NCAA, one day after the UT chancellor criticized the body amid its investigation into possible recruiting violations related to NIL rules in football and other sports programs.
The suit, filed in the Eastern District of Tennessee, claims that the NCAA is “enforcing rules that unfairly restrict how athletes can commercially use their name, image, and likeness at a critical juncture in the recruiting calendar.
Tennessee added: “These anti-competitive restrictions violate the Sherman Act, harm the States, and the welfare of their athletes, and should be declared unlawful and enjoined.
The day before, it was revealed that the NCAA was investigating the Tennessee football program and other athletic programs and an NIL collective funded by boosters that works with athlete.
Tennessee responded when chancellor Donde Plowman wrote a harshly critical letter to NCAA chief Charlie Baker after school officials met with NCAA reps to talk about the allegations against the schools.
Plowman said that leaders in college football and other sports have an obligation to students and their families to act in their interest, but that the NCAA had fallen short in providing a clear set of rules for how to do so.
She criticized the NCAA’s “vague and contradictory… memos, emails, and ‘guidance'” that “created extraordinary chaos.
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Tennessee’s Donde Plowman is not pulling any punches after news broke of the NCAA investigating the Tennessee Volunteers. The subject of the investigation has to do with name, image, and likeness (NIL) benefits that were received by Tennessee Volunteer student-athletes across multiple sports.
Pat Forde of Sports Illustrated first reported the news. While the university did not initially release a statement, Chancellor Donde Plowman sent a letter to NCAA President Charlie Baker. In the letter, Plowman referred to the NCAA as “morally wrong” and “intellectually dishonest.
